The Romney Campaign and the RNC may give lip service to "liberty" but they have every intention of exercising complete top down control of the party after this convention. While I firmly believe that conservatives love to see a good authoritarian quashing of dissent, it's interesting to watch how they react to being the target of the quashing.

There is a battle still brewing this morning over Rule 12 which would effectively strip the grassroots of any control governing party rules. While the Romney people offered to take back Rule 15 and 16 which would have taken away the state's abilities to pick their own delegates, it hardly matters since proposed Rule 12 changes would allow them to just change anything they want to after the convention with 2/3 vote of the RNC. Convention delegates have few responsibilities. They vote for the nominee and they vote on rules. Romney and the RNC want to name their own delegates and make all the rules...